LECTURERS FRUSTRATE PHD STUDENTS - UNIABUJA VC

Most doctoral degree students get
frustrated and abandon their studies because their supervisors take a long time
to assign research topics to them, Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja,
Prof Michael Adikwu, has said.

He stated this while presenting a
paper titled, ‘Redefining the Education Ecosystem in the Face of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution-To Be or Not to Be?’ at the 5th edition of the Digital
Africa Conference and Exhibition in Abuja.

He said post doctoral fellowship was
effective in knowledge transfer but that in many Nigerian universities,
students hung around for a year or more before their supervisors assigned
topics to them.

“Some become frustrated and abandon
their studies thereby denying the academic system of very brilliant minds,” he
said.

He further said academic theft was
on the rise all over the place to the extent that PhD dissertations were
plagiarised.

“If our curriculum from the
time of independence till date had not only focused on petroleum and its
products, but also on palm oil and its applications, groundnuts, etc, Nigeria
would not be talking about recession today,” he also said.